coming soon (launching soon) page for rails

Question

Hello,

I have an already working website and I need a coming soon page for everyone but the admin users. So I would like to have a way for admins to authenticate when they go to /login and use the website if they provide the right credentials and if not, just display the coming soon page.

Thanks, Cezar

Answer 1

You can apply simple authentication filter everywhere except the login page

unless admin?
   redirect_to comming_soon_path
end

Answer 2

You could use the launching soon plugin which includes a bunch of features for mailing interested users in conjunction with whatever solution you come up with (I don't see anything about restricting access to the remainder of the site though).